Now, I want to say a couple things about this mission. First of all, this is an essential mission for the security and well-being of the United States of America. I know we talk a great deal about helping the Iraqi people to find their way out of violence, out of tyranny, to democracy and to living together in peace and prosperity. And that's a noble cause, and America has always been at its best when it uses its power for noble causes. But this mission, bringing a stable and secure Iraq, is also essential for the security of the United States of America. Because on September 11th when those 19 men drove our own airplanes into the Pentagon and into the World Trade Center and would have driven it into the Capitol in Washington, we realized that we were no longer isolated from danger and terror, that the great oceans that had protected us for almost 200 years were no barrier to fear and destruction on our own territory, and we recognized at that point that we were going to have to come to the source of the problem, that we were going to have to go on the offense, that no matter how well we tried to defend America with port security and airport security, we couldn't play defense because the terrorists only have to be right once and we have to be right 100 percent of the time.
Note the linkage of Iraq and the September 11 attacks again. Run it up the flagpole again and see if anyone salutes. Not to mention that her logic that we have to play offense by bombing any country that dares to look at us crosswise, she resembles nothing so much as Tom Davis in the old SNL sketch in which Davis and Al Franken are two politicians making ever-escalating and ever-more scurrilous claims about the other. Franken's tag line was "Vote for me. Pete....Tagliani", and Davis' was "We'll kill 'em BEFORE they can commit a crime."
Then there's this head-combusting statement:
I spent some time a couple of summers ago reading the biographies of the Founding Fathers. And I'm going to tell you something. By all rights, the United States of America should never have come into being. If you looked at fighting the greatest military power of the time, Great Britain; if you looked at trying to conquer this new land; if you looked at the squabbling between the Founding Fathers, they were wonderful, but boy, did they fight.
Hrm....I must have missed the part in the history books when Thomas Jefferson set off carriage bombs in front of the local apothecary. Because Condi the Moron is saying that the passionate arguments of the Founding Fathers are no different from this:
Two car bombs exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 56 people and injuring scores in the deadliest attack since U.S. and Iraqi forces began a major security push around the capital last week.
The twin blasts — which tore through the open-air market in the mostly Shiite district of New Baghdad — marked the first major response by militants to the sweep launched last week and a sobering reminder of the huge challenges facing any efforts against the well-armed factions.
The death toll was reported by police and ambulance service officials on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. At least 127 people were injured, they reported.
The explosions toppled wooden vendors' stalls and utility poles, and blood pooled in the debris. Victims were carried into hospitals on makeshift stretchers or in the arms of rescuers.
A separate car bomb in the mostly Shiite area of Sadr City killed at least one person and injured 10, police said.
Now here's what's interesting...these bombings took place in Shiite neighborhoods. Does Condi think that this is Shia-on-Shia violence? Or is it just perhaps possible that this is Sunni insurgents -- you know, the guys financed by the Bush family's best friends the Saudis -- instead of the Iran-backed militias that the Bush Administration wants so desperately to blame?
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